INVITED TALKS

» Riccardo Betti (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, USA)
“The Lawson criterion for inertial confinement fusion”
“Status of the National Ignition Campaign at NIF”

» Robert Bingham
“HiPER: the European path to inertial fusion energy”

» Marco Borghesi (Centre for Plasma Physics, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK)
“Radiation pressure acceleration of ions from thin foils irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses”

» Andrey Brantov (P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Russia)
“Ion acceleration from solid and low-dense targets”

» Thomas E. Cowan (Institute of Radiation Physics, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)
“Maximizing the energy of laser-accelerated protons and ions within Target Normal Sheath Acceleration”

» Franck Gobet (Université de Bordeaux I, CENBG, France)
“Nuclear Physics experiments with high energy lasers”

» Vyacheslav M. Gordienko (International Laser Center and Physics Faculty, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
“Powerful picosecond 10-µm laser radiation in gaseous and cluster media: pulse duration control, particle acceleration and nuclear excitation”

» Mark J. Hogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
“Particle Driven Wakefields in Plasmas”

» Chan Joshi (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
“Charged Particle Acceleration Using Intense Laser and Particle beams”

» Mayuko Koga (Osaka University, Japan)
“Present status and future prospect of Fast Ignition realization Experiment (FIREX) with Gekko and LFEX at ILE”

» Luca Labate
“The FLAME Laser and the Test Experiment at LNF-FRASCATI”

» Anthony Link (The Ohio State University, USA)
“The Role of Hot Electron Divergence in Determining the Efficacy of Fast Fusion”

» Victor Malka (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France)
“High current electron beam produced with laser plasma accelerators"

» Alfred Maquet (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
“Harmonic phases and attosecond electron dynamics in small molecules: Challenges for theory”

» Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany)
“Uniform laser-driven relativistic electron layer for coherent Thomson scattering”

» Paul McKenna (University of Strathclyde, SUPA Department of Physics, UK)
“Investigations of fast electron generation and transport in dense plasma using the Vulcan PW laser”

» Peter Mulser (Inst. Applied Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
“Collisionless absorption of sub-ps laser pulses, fast electron spectra and scaling with intensity”

» Mauro Nisoli (Physics Dept., Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
“Isolated attosecond pulses for the investigation of electron localization processes in molecules”

» Francesco Pegoraro (Physics Dept., Pisa University, CNISM, Italy)
“Ion acceleration in the RPDA regime”

» James Rosenzweig (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, USA)
“Teravolt-per-meter plasma wakefields from low-charge, femtosecond electron beams”

» David Ros (Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, France)
“LASERIX : an open facility for developments of Soft X-ray and EUV lasers and Applications.”

» Markus Roth (Inst. for Nuclear Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
“Laser Driven Ion Beams -Status and Perspectives for Research and Fusion”

» Emily Sistrunk (The Ohio State University, Department of Physics, USA)
“Strong field physics in the x-ray regime”

» Benjamin Vauzour (Université de Bordeaux I, CELIA, France)
“Fast ignition: propagation of fast electrons in compressed matter”